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Misery Quote by Margaret Drabble

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.” quote by Margaret Drabble — Download Open image

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”

Margaret Drabble

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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

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